How to modify URL structures in custom post types and taxonomies or terms

I’m not sure it’s possible, or perhaps it just may not be the best approach. Here is my reasoning:

domain.com/post-type-name/taxonomy-name/term-name/post-title/

Posts can be attached to multiple terms, so in essence there could be multiple links to the same post:

domain.com/post-type-name/taxonomy-name/term-name/post-title/
domain.com/post-type-name/taxonomy-name/term2-name/post-title/
domain.com/post-type-name/taxonomy2-name/term3-name/post-title/
domain.com/post-type-name/post-title/

Depending on how you got there.

You will definitely be able to have domain.com/post-type-name/taxonomy-name/term-name/, but I think that it may not completely make sense within WordPress to have such a long URI.

I think this for 2 reasons:

  1. The possibility of multiple taxonomy terms (let alone multiple taxonomies attached to a custom post type, or any post) would create a lot of overlapping links, as well as more possibilities to break bookmarks – lets say I bookmark /cars/dealers/honda/123-hot-rod, but then you realize that it wasn’t actually Honda, it was Toyota – you changing the tax term related to the post would break that link. Not a likely occurance, but it’s possible.

  2. Frankly, it’s less user friendly. Not that the average user pays attention to the web paths they are on, but it is easier to remember domain.com/cars/93-saturn-ion than it would to remember (or understand) domain.com/cars/dealers/wonderland-auto/93-saturn-ion.

When you are on that single post’s page, the default ‘above_nav’ in most themes includes the taxonomy terms with the date underneath of the Page title anyways, so that information is still there, in a more legible, and usable way.

Example:

123 Hot Rod

posted November 2, 2012 in Wonderland Used Cars

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